anyone can contact anyone. We have board members here that speak with major D1 football players over the phone and computer all the time. Interviews are done for major websites and all. Heck, one of them even agreed to go golfing. You can pretty much do about anything you want and the ncaa is going to do nothing. They have no control whatsoever. This particular rule was made to make coaches learn rules so they wouldnt create major violations without prior knowledge of stated rules.